Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council, Larry Lindsey, Today Announced That Doug Badger Will Join the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic
Council, Larry Lindsey, today announced that Doug Badger will join the
White House as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
As a member of the National Economic Council staff, Mr. Badger will
assume the senior health policy coordination responsibilities of Dr.
Mark McClellan, who has been nominated to be Commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration.

Mr. Badger has almost two decades of policy experience,
particularly involving health care issues. He joins the White House
from Washington Council Ernst & Young, where he has been a partner
since 1999. From 1989 through 1999, he worked in the United States
Senate, first as Assistant Staff Director, then Staff Director of the
Senate Republican Policy Committee, then as Chief of Staff to Assistant
Majority Leader Senator Don Nickles. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Badger
held various policy positions in the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Social Security Administration.

Mr. Badger earned a B.A. from the University of Delaware and a
Master of Divinity from Westminster Theological Seminary.